Sunday is all about pies in Milton

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Sep 20, 2012 at 3:15 AM

MILTON — Calling all amateur pie makers to compete in the fourth annual pie making contest at the Great New Hampshire Pie Festival Sunday, Sept. 23 at the New Hampshire Farm Museum. Bring your pie to the museum by 12:30 p.m. on Sunday morning; judging starts promptly at 12:30 p.m.

Judging is in three categories — Apple, Other Fruit, and Nonfruit. Top three in each category win prizes.

This year's judges include Steven Comeau, Farm Museum board member, and Mary Jo Brown, owner of Brown & Company design firm in Portsmouth. King Arthur Flour has once again donated many prizes and Salmon Falls Stoneware of Dover has donated their coveted custom-made pie plate for the first place apple pie winner.

If you want to just come and eat pie, there will be plenty of that! Local professional bakeries have donated pies, some of which are sampled while the amateur contest judging is taking place and some become part of a fun pie auction with proceeds benefiting the Farm Museum. And all attendees are invited to eat the contest pies after the judging is finished! Other activities include pie making demonstrations, a kid's pie eating contest, horse drawn hay wagon rides, music, house tours, and visiting the farm animals.

Pie contest entrants receive free admission to the festival. General admission is $10/$5 child for nonmembers; museum members $6/$3.

The New Hampshire Farm Museum is located on Route 125, White Mountain Highway, in Milton. Call (603) 652-7840 or email info@farmmuseum.org.

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